"[…] the German painter Gerhard Richter […] looked back mournfully on painting's loss of public function in his October 18, 1977 (1988), a cycle of 15 paintings which mimicked the appearances of blurred black-and-white photographs. Richter had...

Oral history interview conducted with James Shively on December 18, 1978 by Dwayne Cox. Mr. Shively focuses largely on his education in Louisville, at Louisville Central High School and the Louisville Municipal College, in the 1930s and 1940s. He...

The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue says Vol. 18. No. 33. but is actually Vol. 18. No. 34. There are tears and portions missing from the bottom of...

Portrait of Louisville educator Theodore Ahrens with a mustache and slightly balding. Stamped on back of image: December 19, 1927. The collection includes other copies of this image (ULPA 1994.18.1139, dated December 15, 1927 on the back, and ULPA...

Aerial view of race track at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, 1929. Behind the track are diagonal residential blocks. In front of the track, both perpendicular and diagonal, are a number of similar long, low buildings with peak roofs. The...

The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue says Vol. 18. No. 9. but is actually Vol. 18. No. 10. There are portions missing along the edges of each page...

The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue says Vol. 18. No. 35. but is actually Vol. 18. No. 36. There are tears and portions missing along the bottom...

The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue says Vol. 18. No. 9. but is actually Vol. 18. No. 11. There are portions missing along the edges of each page...

The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue says Vol. 18. No. 34. but is actually Vol. 18. No. 44. There is a significant portion missing from the bottom...

The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue says Vol. 18. No. 34. but is actually Vol. 18. No. 45. There is a significant portion missing from the bottom...

The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue says Vol. 18. No. 34. but is actually Vol. 18. No. 46. There are small tears and portions missing down the...

The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue says Vol. 18. No. 41. but is actually Vol. 18. No. 49. Portions of the first page of this issue are very faded.

The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue says Vol. 18. No. 45. but is actually Vol. 18. No. 50. Portions of the first page of this issue are very faded.